What are you reading Wednesday
Feb. 20th, 2013 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
affrecaThis seems like a delightful meme, so I shall try it (hey, I've actually managed to track most of my reading this year on Goodreads)
What are you reading?
I'm currently reading two books, one at home in the evening and one at work during my lunch hour. That's because my "bath" book is a physical book I checked out from the library, and I've gotten lazy about not taking anything but my nook to work.
My "bath" book is Marie Brennan's Midnight Never Comes. I'd been avoiding it because I thought I was bored with Elizabethan fairies. On the other hand, I've enjoyed her short stories when they've come up on my podcast feeds (I don't often read short stories, but they're perfect to me for listening to). Enjoying it enough that I'll check out the rest of the trilogy.
My lunch book is a reread of Octavia Butler's Dawn (Book 1 of Xenogenesis). It's a lot creepier of a book as an adult than it was a early teen. Somehow I missed all the slavery parallels the first time I read it. Still moving.
What did you recently finish reading?
Reread of Barbara Hambly's Witches of Wenshar (I love how she writes relationships) and Ursula Le Guin's The Birthday of the World. So I said two paragraphs ago how I don't enjoy short stories. Graydown prompted me to start reading the Tiptree winners, and then loaned me a copy of this collection with two winners in it. And either I've grown up more, or Le Guin has gotten even better a writing. Or both.
What do you think you’ll read next?
I requested the rest of Marie Brennan's novels from the library. I've got a few more Tiptree winners loaded on the nook, but I might save them for my trip. I might finish up the rest of the Xenogenesis books (I bought the all three on the cheap).
What are you reading?
I'm currently reading two books, one at home in the evening and one at work during my lunch hour. That's because my "bath" book is a physical book I checked out from the library, and I've gotten lazy about not taking anything but my nook to work.
My "bath" book is Marie Brennan's Midnight Never Comes. I'd been avoiding it because I thought I was bored with Elizabethan fairies. On the other hand, I've enjoyed her short stories when they've come up on my podcast feeds (I don't often read short stories, but they're perfect to me for listening to). Enjoying it enough that I'll check out the rest of the trilogy.
My lunch book is a reread of Octavia Butler's Dawn (Book 1 of Xenogenesis). It's a lot creepier of a book as an adult than it was a early teen. Somehow I missed all the slavery parallels the first time I read it. Still moving.
What did you recently finish reading?
Reread of Barbara Hambly's Witches of Wenshar (I love how she writes relationships) and Ursula Le Guin's The Birthday of the World. So I said two paragraphs ago how I don't enjoy short stories. Graydown prompted me to start reading the Tiptree winners, and then loaned me a copy of this collection with two winners in it. And either I've grown up more, or Le Guin has gotten even better a writing. Or both.
What do you think you’ll read next?
I requested the rest of Marie Brennan's novels from the library. I've got a few more Tiptree winners loaded on the nook, but I might save them for my trip. I might finish up the rest of the Xenogenesis books (I bought the all three on the cheap).
